Actress Stacey Dash called Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams a “Hollywood plantation slave” while criticising his impassioned speech at the BET Awards.

Jesse, 34, called for an end to police brutality against black people and voiced opposition to white appropriation of black culture after collecting the show’s humanitarian award on Sunday.

But in a blog post, Stacey, who starred in the 1995 film Clueless, claimed the actor’s comments were “nothing short of an attack on white people”.

Stacey Dash (PA)
Stacey Dash (PA)

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: BET is keeping racism and segregation alive and this past Sunday’s awards show proves it,” she wrote.

“Particularly the speech given by Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams, whose tirade after receiving the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award for his black activism was nothing short of an attack on white people.”

She went on: “You’ve just seen the perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave! Sorry, Mr Williams. But the fact that you were standing on that stage at THOSE awards tells people you really don’t know what your (sic) talking about. Just spewing hate and anger.”

Jesse Williams (Matt Sayles/AP)
Jesse Williams (Matt Sayles/AP)

Samuel L Jackson was among a number of celebrities who praised Jesse for his speech during Sunday’s BET Awards in Los Angeles.

The Pulp Fiction star, who received the lifetime achievement award, described Jesse as “the closest thing I’ve heard to a 1960s activist”, adding: “That brother is right and he’s true, and when you hear what he said, make sure you vote and you take eight more people with you to vote, OK? Don’t get tricked like they got tricked in London.”

During his speech, Jesse said: “A system built to impoverish, divide and destroy us cannot stand if we do. We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day.

“We’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold, ghettoising and demeaning our creations then stealing them; gentrifying our genius and trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies.”

Stacey, who had a lead role in Clueless opposite Alicia Silverstone, is a co-host on Fox News Channel talk show Outnumbered.